Quotes About Ingenuity

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.

One time, I was so hungry, I ate the beans in a bean bag chair.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

Engineers don't go to confession when they screw up; they find a fix.

Invention hovers always a little above the rules.

I get ideas for my paintings from everything! I look at a watermark on a wall and see an old woman's face. I look at a food stain on my tablecloth and see a horse! I study rain puddles and rocks and see oceans and mountains! (p.36)

People think I am trying to keep my ideas a secret, said Leonardo. But, in truth, I am left-handed, and when I write normally from left to right, I smear ink across the page. One day I realized that if I wrote backward, I would not be so messy. (p. 62)

Inventar, deve-se admitir humildemente, não consiste em criar algo do nada, mas sim do caos.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos;

partly as an expedient for exercising any untried resources of mind.

fortochka. It is a tiny window cut inside a larger pane. Even when windows have been sealed for the long winter, the fortochka can remain in use, being opened regularly to allow air to circulate. The Soviet university, as it turned out, had its fortochkas, and the way to learn was to hunt for them and then to stick your whole face in them and breathe the fresh air as though one's lungs could be filled up with reserve supplies.

Technology will find its inventors, rather than vice versa.

In 2009, an artist named Thomas Thwaites set out to make his own toaster, of the sort that he could buy from a shop for about £4.

You'd be surprised, you can do a lot more damage with your brains than with your fists.

That's how you win at life. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done, there's always a solution, even if it's weird.

Romanticism demands mastery of the primary element of fiction: the art of storytelling—which requires three cardinal qualities: ingenuity, imagination, a sense of drama.

Dagny, he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and what he wanted. He did not say, 'It seems to me,' and he did not take orders from those who say, 'In my opinion.

There was nothing else, nothing to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.

When I look at the ocean, I feel the greatness of man. I think of man's magnificent capacity that created this ship to conquer all that senseless space. When I look at mountain peaks, I think of tunnels and dynamite. When I look at the planets, I think of airplanes.

make away out of no way

proof of people's capacity to harness ingenuity in the service of madness.